Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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The Cross-Heart People: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2003) pages 181-196 DOI: 10.1080/01956050309602855 Joanna Hearne, Assistant Professor of English University of Missouri The author examines the visualization of Indianness in the context of cross-racial romance and in relation to the emergence of…
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D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 240-258 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Naomi J. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History Santa Clara University This article is a close reading of Gustave…
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Who Belongs to Whom?: Codes, Property, and Ownership in Madame Charles Reybaud’s “Les Épaves” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 229-239 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University French Romantic writer Madame Charles Reybaud explores the coupling of gender and…
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Amalgamation! Race, Sex, and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel Praeger 1985-08-22 259 pages ISBN: 0-313-24275-5/978-0-313-24275-5 James Kinney This book is likely out of print.
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The Caste Taboo in William Faulkner’s “Elly” and “Mountain Victory” EuroAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies Volume 25, Number 3 (September 1995) pages 1-24 Online ISSN:1991-7864; Print ISSN: 1021-3058 Wen-ching Ho Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Simca, Republic of China Miscegenation is “the ultimate horror.” —Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must…
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In “Transatlantic Spectacles of Race,” Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace.
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ENGLISH 56N: Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture and Faith (Stanford Introductory Seminar) Stanford University Winter Quarter, 2011-2012 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Our course examines how literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape…
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Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves (SS-0217) Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring Term 2011 Kimberly Chang, Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology This course explores two related concepts—hybridity and authenticity—that underlie many present-day struggles over cultural identity and representation. The former calls attention to the multiplicity of social identities that vie for recognition within a person, while the…
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This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…